Caleb Congrove is a Roman Catholic layman. He graduated from Oberlin College in 1996. His theological interests received their basic shape and orientation at Yale Divinity School, where he studied the Christian tradition and was introduced to ecumenism.

He graduated from Yale in 2000. The next fall, he entered the doctoral program in the Theology Department of the University of Notre Dame, but he eventually withdrew from the program. He now lives in Cambridge, Ohio, with his wife and three children, and teaches Spanish at a public high school.